About
Version 2 of the CERN Open Hardware Licence was published in 2020 and approved by OSI in 2021. During its drafting, a great deal of thought and discussions were devoted to catering for the specificities of IC and FPGA design. The licence comes in three variants in order to give these communities appropriate tools for sharing in the three usual regimes: permissive (P), weakly-reciprocal (W) and strongly-reciprocal (S). The talk will cover the basics of licensing, differences between software, hardware and documentation licensing and practicalities such as how to use each of the licence variants in FPGA designs. The CERN OHL v2 was a community effort with many designers and legal experts involved. The presentation will also discuss the importance of open-sourcing, the new Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at CERN and how it can help FPGA designers share their work efficiently.
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The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- CERN
- Speaker
- Javier Serrano
- Year
- 2026
- Language
- English
- Source
- CERN
- Licence
- CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
- Attribution
- © CERN. CERN provides its audiovisual media free of charge for educational and informational use, credited to CERN; this lecture is shown in CERN's own player.
- Who can watch
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